Mexico News

Supervisor Scott Wiener with the San Francisco delegation at a BRT station platform in Mexico City last week.

Chili peppers and sauces will take center stage at a festival being held this week in Mexico City, where the spicy plant, one of the pillars of Mexican cuisine, will be honored, organizers said.

The man gunned down execution-style at the Southlake Town Center Wednesday was an attorney linked to a major Mexican drug cartel who had been living with his family in a secure, gated community with his wife and at least one child.

Julian Zapata Espinoza, a cell commander of the brutal Los Zetas drug cartel, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in the District in the killing of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of his partner, ICE Agent Victor Avila, during a February 2011 daylight ambush on a major highway 250 miles ... (more)

Nine people were killed Wednesday when a van carrying at least 15 people fell into a ravine near Tianguistengo, Mexico, authorities said.

Like many Americans, I've heard about the "Fast and Furious" scandal in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty and corrupt of supplying guns that ended up in the hands of the drug cartels.

Mexico's 'Smoking Mountain,' Popocatepetl Volcano, is living up to its Aztec name.

"Know, that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California...and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of Amazons." So wrote Spanish author Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo of a fictional paradise governed by a black super-woman he called Queen Calafia in his 1510 novel, Adventures of ... (more)

Almost certainly the longest and certainly the most geographically ambitious film festival in the world, Mexico's Ambulante runs for 12 weeks and involves stopovers in 12 Mexican states, from Baja California in the north to Oaxaca in the south.

Named for the inspirational Yaqui general who fought alongside Pancho Villa in the Mexican revolutionary war and not the first woman in space Valentina is only one of two new insurrectionist cantinas to open in Kensington Market of late.

This resort, situated in the Riviera Maya, was the hotel chain's first property in Mexico and, since 1997, has been a favourite with families, thanks to its 24 hour All Inclusive service and vast range of activities.

According to an analysis by the Agence France Press , more Americans have been murdered in Mexico than in any other country outside the U.S. Studying statistics from the U.S. State Department, AFP found that between October 2002 and December 2012, 648 American citizens were murdered in Mexico, representing more than 40 percent of the American ... (more)

Pope Francis has named Rafael Valdez Torres, who has been serving as pastor and rector of the Shrine of Our Lord of the Miracles in San Juan Nuevo, to be the new bishop of Ensenada, Mexico, the Vatican press office said Tuesday.

A Mexican chemical company is banking on sales to Maine's coated paper producers in its new partnership with the Searsport-based GAC Chemical.

To the Editor: Rickettsia typhi is the causal agent of murine typhus, a febrile illness affecting humans worldwide .

A cloud of ash belches out of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, some 55 km from Mexico City, as seen from Paso de Cortes, in the Mexican central state of Puebla, on May 20, 2013.

Delvin Rodriguez is no stranger to publicity. Rodriguez has been featured on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights television program eleven times over his career.

Gisela Genschow grew up in Hamburg, Germany's major port city and home to The Hamburg Ballet.

Mexico's top security officials promised Tuesday that a new federal offensive to rescue towns besieged by the Knights Templar drug cartel in western Michoacan state would stay "until there is security and peace for all state residents." Interior Secretary Miguel Osorio Chong and his national security team met with local officials in the state ... (more)

President of China, Xi Jinping, will visit Mexico from June 4 to 6, the foreign ministry said in a statement.